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Resize server partitons (OS volume is already full)

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I would to ask you the best procedure to resize the partitions of a W2K8 R2 server, I know this is 2012 forum, but I think is exactly the same process.

The server is a Dell PowerEdge R620 with a two disk of 140GB in RAID1 that are allocated the RECOVERY OEM, OS and the PageFile and with 48GB of RAM. As mentioned, is a W2K8 R2 DataCenter with Hyper-V role but VM's are stored in a SAN.

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I would create another page file on another volume. You say you have access to a SAN, so put it out there. Then delete the existing page file. This can be done all at the same time, so when the system reboots to cause the page file changes
to take effect, the system will boot with the new page file. Then I would delete the page file partition on the RAID drive, extend the system partition, and reboot the system to ensure everything is working correctly. Then I would repeat the steps
to move the page file back to the RAID drive.

Note, on a system that is configured with sufficient memory, there is no need to have a large page file. I generally set up my page file to be 1-4 GB and never had an issue. The larger size for page files is needed if you are doing a lot of hard
paging (not enough memory on the system) or if you want to capture a large memory dump. 99% of the time, the mini-dump is sufficient for resolving an issue that requires a memory dump.